They stood together on those glorious Canyon of Heroes floats, Tom Coughlin hoisting the Lombardi Trophy with a smile that stretched all the way to his Waterloo, N.Y., hometown; Eli Manning with a smile that stretched all the way to New Orleans.
They were The Odd Couple, peas in a Big Blue pod, the General Pattonesque coach and the easy-like-Sunday-morning gentleman quarterback, as Tom Coughlin will be peering down from the press box at his Jaguars, Eli Manning will try to turn back the clock, to a time when no one worried that he was 37 years old.